Abington Detective Philip Geliebter, Cheltenham Detective James McClelland and Cheltenham Police Officer Thomas Fahy were among those honored yesterday at the Montgomery County Courthouse.
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The energetic, modern restaurant hints to its past.
The name “Alexander’s” in large letters is inscribed above the front entrance; one could suppose this is to link the chic, sleek new Kitchen Bar with its more prosaic, yet successful and popular past. Alexander’s, an upscale Greek diner with a bar, owned by the Makris family, was a mainstay for many years in restaurant-poor Abington. The new, completely rebuilt Kitchen Bar restaurant, reopened by the Makris family in May 2006, with its rakish modern exterior, and stylish contemporary interior, is a dramatic departure from Alexander’s. It is filled with eye-catching details, such as a wall of falling water lit with ever-changing colors (There’s one on the outside, too.), a giant metal cook’s utensils on another wall, acres of glass windows…
Ruth Z. Deming
10:44 pm on Sunday, July 31, 2011
very informative review, mitch! i am certainly glad you enjoy the kitchen bar. i so wanted to like it myself. i love the avant-garde decor - 'rakish modern interior' you delightfully call it - and everything about the place except...the food. i must say, tho, i've never been there for dinner and that risotto w/shrimp sounded scrumptious. more ›